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...cold shoulder," is too often the story of the shipping clerk who is out of it because he lacks the ambition to become at least bi-lingual in the mad search for knowledge. The primitive day of the quoter of Shelley has passed, and John may be forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain challenge to the colleges, a challenge which too probably will be answered by the snorting of the steam shovel echoed in empty classrooms...
Married. Miss Grace Vanderbilt, 27, daughter of Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Henry Gassaway Davis III, 25, grandson of late Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, onetime (1904) Democratic candidate for Vice President; following an elopement in Manhattan. Brigadier General & Mrs. Vanderbilt in 1896 were married under like circumstances, were forgiven by Mr. Vanderbilt's father only after an estrangment of several years; last week, vexed, they refused to endorse their daughter's action. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., famed journalist, brother of Mrs. Davis, explained she was not upset by her family's attitude, said: "She expected they would behave...
...remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment so long as Sally Sherburne and Barry Gingham consent to do the Black Bottom...
...remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment so long as Sally Sherburne and Barry Gingham consent to do the Black Bottom...
Alexander of Macedon ("The Great"), though he died many a century before George Washington, is still held in a mellow, Washingtonian esteem at Samarkand. The natives appear to have forgiven that he sacked and burned their city, remember only how he wrought great glory there, and refer to him affectionately as "Iskander Macedonski...